Natasha very much preferred this building over the tower Nick Fury normally met up in with her.
This one was plain looking, unassuming – in a way almost too perfect for a secret government organisation. The few windows had been closed shut with cement, no one able to observe what happened inside.
Nick Fury had spent a lot of thought on how to hide this building in plain sight, some trees and old, basically destroyed machines, forsaken cars and scary looking statues, withered by time, circling the seemingly two floors high building.
It was a lot bigger than it looked actually, most of the base beneath the ground. Natasha opened the heavy door with ease, curious as to what this meeting was about.
She jogged down the stairs, people clearing the way for her.
Scientists, mostly, and Natasha wondered what Nick Fury was working on in here. Well, she would find out soon.
After a short knock, Natasha entered Fury’s office, finding him bowed over a massive stack of papers, seemingly lost in his thoughts.
She observed him, his tense posture, holding on to the pen in his hand so hard she thought he would break it for a moment.
His look shot up all of a sudden, but it seemed as though he looked right through her, as if he saw something nobody else did.
Natasha looked over her shoulder for a moment, finding an empty office.
“Fury?”, she asked carefully, not sure why her hand wandered to the pistol instinctively.
There was something about his absent look...
He took a deep breath then, blinking a couple of times before looking up at her.
“Romanoff.”, he looked confused for the split of a second – a feeling not often coming over him, before standing up.
“Why did you sneak up on me?”, he asked and Natasha moved over to his desk.
“I didn’t. I even knocked.”
“Hm.”, Fury offered her a seat at the other side of his desk.
“So, what am I here for?”, sitting down.
She glanced at the papers, curiosity getting the best of her. She wanted to know who she was working for. At least now she wanted to know – could take decisions for herself, the mindless spy from back then making place for a new beginning. One where Natasha would do better than the last time.
"Remember that former soldier Loki took hostage before we caught him?", Fury asked, putting the papers into one of his drawers underneath the table.
"Why?"
"We are going to supervise her.", he explained, and Natasha cocked her head.
Tessa didn't seem like a threat to S.H.I.E.L.D. or anyone really, more like a possible agent considering her former...well, career was a big word, but expertise in the military. Natasha wasn’t especially fond of her, something about Tessa was off and Natasha could never really pinpoint down what it was.
To be fair, Natasha thought to herself, I don’t know her well enough, meeting her only properly once, while Loki was playing around inside her head. That probably wouldn’t turn anyone into a perfectly fine person.
She wondered how Hawkeye was doing.
After Loki’s arrival, her partner hadn’t been the same, the power of that sceptre somehow still affecting him, even after Natasha pulled him out of the building Loki destroyed when he arrived.
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The Villain
Fanfiction[second part of The Soldier] Maybe Tessa's place just stays the losing side. Left behind on Midgard, the former soldier has to deal with losing yet another person because she can't reach them in time. Finding no answers to any of her questions rega...
